_Bio lagomorphhh is a queer, non-binary, foster care system survivor and adoptee with mixed Settler-Indigenous heritage. They have grown up in Calgary, Alberta, and attended NSCAD University for a Bachelor of fine arts degree with a focus in textiles, fashion, and printmaking. They live and work in Calgary. Their work has been recently shown at the Confederation Centre for the Arts in Charlottetown, Gallery Gachet in Vancouver, The New Gallery in Calgary, Stride Gallery in Calgary, and the Harbourfront center in Toronto. They are currently completing two public art commissions for both the Calgary Public Library and the CAFKA Biennial of 2025.
_Approach lagomorphhh explores alternate stories to fill gaps created by capitalism and colonialism with a focus on capturing inner truth and alternate possibilities. They are weaving stories that bridge gaps in between, and draw attention to the intersections between liberation and social justice movements, focusing on queer histories, working class history, generational trauma, activism, environmentalism and present day politics. They approach their work through a storytelling lens, placing these histories and truths into personal, understandable and digestible realities in conversation with each other.
_Project With their project, lagomorphhh hopes to deindividualize the experience of climate change and of living in the anthropocene by tapping into our collective memories in order to get a broader understanding of the impacts of climate change on both our environment and our culture. We are made to feel that the responsibility for both cause and solution lies almost entirely on us as individuals, or to feel guilty for forgetting to recycle a pop can while, in reality, that responsibility for the current climatic situation lies on large corporations and governments.
This project is a collective memory mapping project, aimed to map feelings and memories relating to climate change. The purpose of lagomorphhh's project is to resist this feeling of climate dread by linking our collective memories and wishes for the future. Connecting with and supporting each other like forests which, though may appear to be made from individual trees, are constantly communicating and sharing resources with each other beneath the soil, through their roots.
